Help reinvent insurance for women

Insuring Women’s Futures (IWF) is a programme established by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), aimed at promoting and enhancing the insurance and financial planning profession’s role in relation to Women & Risk.

Securing the financial future of the next generation (print version) analyses patterns in the risks to society that are disproportionately borne by women. It identifies six ‘Moments that Matter’ in girls’ and women’s lives, highlighting 12 ‘Perils and Pitfalls’ that aggregate in these moments, together with potential interventions for the profession, policymakers and society to improve women’s risk resilience.

Insuring Women’s Futures (IWF) is a programme established by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), aimed at promoting and enhancing the insurance and financial planning profession's role in relation to Women & Risk.

We are developing a programme to help employers across the insurance and financial planning professions to equalise the gender balance and encourage more women to reach their full potential in a career in risk.

As in wider society, women's voices, careers and opportunities within the insurance and wider financial planning profession have been on a long journey towards equality. Many positions were exclusively available to men until the middle of the 20th century, and we are still some way from gender parity in 2016.
Understanding where we have come from helps us to understand how we will get to our destination. Over the past 100 years' access to qualifications and equality legislation has been critical in empowering women in the past, and more recently businesses have increasingly driven their own initiatives in pursuit of the benefits of a diversified workforce.
Looking to the future there are a range of indicators for when we will achieve gender parity in wider society, and it will be down to all of us – women and men – to help to bring that date forwards within our profession.
Why not help make that step a little closer by making your own personal HeForShe commitment?